Roma.

So they saying goes. When in Rome... Do as Romans do. But honestly besides driving like fecking maniacs, eating pizza they do nothing <3 Thats the life. However someone who lives in Roma may beg to differ. Anyways. I'm sad to say that Rome was a tiny bit disappointing. Yes it was beautiful but it didn't feel beautiful. At every little touristy spot there were people trying to sell you stuff. and they wouldn't stop coming back to you. Honestly. If I wasn't with my school, I would turn around and give them some Australian slang ;)

While we were there we went to the "Colosseo" or Colosseum, heaps of ruins, spanish steps, Hard Rock Cafe (we also went to that when we were in Venice), Pantheon (which was gorgeous by the way), Trevi Fountain, Imperial fora and my favourite - the Vatican City. It was absolutely beautiful. The church was amazing and it was huge! One of the best things about the Vatican City was that the sellers are not allowed in the city. Also like every church in Italia, they seem to hold this feel about them. Something that feels like security, faith and trust. So being in the St Peter's Church (which is the biggest church EVER) was a strange experience. First of all, there were tourist there... taking photo's posing... doing usual touristy things. But somehow it was respectful or something. I don't how to explain it really, but it was beautiful and thats all you need to know.

 And of course my next favourite story comes from when i was in rome. actually i lied in my previous posts. I have 4 favourite photos. My first 2 are from venice and my next 2 are from Roma.

The first story. 

So some kids in the group that went over there with me decided that they would drink the night before we left (considering alcohol for 16yr old is legal... they have it in supermarkets!!) and my friend Izzy and I decided not to drink and to pack instead. Half way through packing we both lost motivation and then I stated "IZZY! I need to shave my legs." Then she stated "Shelby! I need to shave my legs. I can almost braid mine." Then I said "IZZY! I need to shave my legs because I can almost shave mine off and use them as hair extensions." Then Izzy said "Lets do them together." So we ran a bath in our dodgy  bathroom (everything kept breaking in our 4 star hotel bathroom :s ) and stripped down to our undies, got our razors and jumped in. Now I must say this one of the funny moments in my whole trip. we compared our overly hair legs. It took us about an hour to finish (probably cos we were laughing the whole time). And then Izzy, who has dark thick black hair, decides to shave in a pattern in her leg for the time we were in the bath. Let me say. It was HILARIOUS. 

My next favourite story is when we were leaving Rome. The whole of Europe was attacked by a huge snow storm. In fact England got it the worst. Anyways, just as we were leaving the storm hit Rome. Our plane was delayed 30minutes. But I don't care because i was too busy watching snow flakes hit my window <3